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City of The Hills

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COMMENCEMENT 2012

Worcester Firefighter Nathan Baker was among the underage volunteers who received toy hats from older grads at Firefighter 1 Graduation 2012 Saturday, May 12, at The Depot, but the fun was part of a more serious mission. (See B7)

As IBM Grew, So Did Perna

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he Oneonta Outlaws are seeking host families for the 2012 Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League season, June 7 through early August. Host families receive season tickets, a stipend, invitations to the Meet and Greet party and Host Family Recognition Night, credit for food and souvenirs at the ball park, and free admission to all youth clinics and camps. Call Steve Pindar at 4326326 (office) or 437-8779 (cell) or e-mail stevepindar@oneontaoutlaws.com PARKING HIKE: City Hall announced parking meters will now require 50 cents per hour, up from a quarter. OPEN AGAIN: After renovations, The Oneonta History Center reopened Saturday, May 12, and will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays only for the time being. DISCOUNT HALVED: Since May 13, Price Chopper will give shoppers a 10-cent discount on gasoline for every $100 in purchases, up from $50. HURRAY, BUSINESS: National Small Business Week is coming up May 20-26.

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f you’ve ever used an ATM, bought anything from amazon. com or gone to a new doctor and had him or her access your file from your old doctor, you can thank Janet Perna. Perna Perna, ‘70, commencement speaker at the 2012 SUNY Oneonta graduation Saturday, May 19, was part of the IBM team that created that DD2 mainframe, the most widely used database in the world. The SUNY Oneonta grad worked for IBM for 31 years, the last 10 as the general manager of Information Please See PERNA, A8

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“We’ve never had lines like this,” said School Superintendent Mike Shea, as he directs his uncle, Al Bowers, to the next available voting booth during the Tuesday, May 15, balloting.

1,901-726 Tally On Question Wasn’t Even Close District election officials trying to oversee balloting in the Foothills Performing Art Center’s Atrium. The polls were open from noon to 9 p.m., but the throng used up the ballots by 3. “We ordered 2,000 ballots,” said District Clerk Eileen Lishansky. “But we ran out of those a few hours ago. We’ve been on paper ballots ever since.” Even at 8 p.m., one hour before the polls closed, the Please See SCHOOLS, A8

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espite the Save Our Schools campaign and with record voter turnout, Proposition 1, which would have added a 5.51 percent tax increase to help close the $1 million budget gap, was defeated 1,901 to 726, dooming historic Center Street School. The turnout overwhelmed the Oneonta City School

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Citizens Voices Takes Credit For Bottling Up Home Rule By LIBBY CUDMORE

Congressman Aims To Serve All Otsego By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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hen Republican Chris Gibson first ran for Congress in 2010, he won Tea Party backing, which to some

might connote a tendency toward rigidity. It didn’t turn out that way. Having to deal with all types of people in a 24-year Army career taught him to “treat everybody with dignity and respect,” he said. “I never HOMETOWN ONEONTA make it personal.” Congressman Gibson Please See GIBSON, A9 in Otsego County.

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he pro-business Citizens Voices met Tuesday, May 15, to assess progress made in its five-month existence, and acknowledged some satisfaction. “Pat yourself on the back,” Bob Harlem Jr., Oneonta Block president

and Citizens Voices cochair, instructed the 50 attendees at the Carriage House. “Home Rule legislation is bottled up in committee – you had a hand in this.” The state’s Home Rule doctrine – where any powers not claimed by the state devolve to the towns – has been the basis for bans on Please See CITIZENS, A2

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CITIZENS/From A1 hydrofracking in the towns of Middlefield, Cherry Valley and, just last week, Butternuts. Milford is also considering a ban. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, had introduced legislation to affirm Home Rule, a move to protect towns that adopt bans from having to fight expensive challenges from naturalgas companies. That’s the legislation Bob Harlem was referring to. Seward’s spokesman Jeff Bishop acknowledged the Home Rule legislation is still waiting to be put on the agenda. “At this point, with the court cases in Middlefield and Dryden, that’s the rule of the land,� he said. “It’s still in with the Senate.� “I love Home Rule,� said Oneonta Town Attorney Richard Harlem, Bob’s brother. “But I don’t want anything that pits neighbor against neighbor. This Home Rule bill is designed to limit property rights.� Bob Harlem ticked off several other successes since Citizens Voices’ inception in late 2011, including slowing down the rush to controversial road-use agreements, which they see as interfering with business growth. “If Chobani has to get a roaduse agreement from Otsego County, they’re going to buy from Chenango,� he said. Moratoriums are another concern, including a 12month one against heavy industry passed by the Town of Oneonta. “When a moratorium outlaws every kind of heavy industry, including pharmaceuticals, it’s kind of scary,� said Harlem. “If you’ve got concerns about gas, voice that concern, but don’t outlaw all industry.� “The problem is overreach,� he said. “Each project should rise and fall on it’s own merits.� Oneonta Town Board member Scott Gravelin countered, “The 12-month moratorium was put in place

to give us time to develop a comprehensive plan – you have to get involved to make sure the plan is done correctly.� Job creation is still the group’s biggest concern for Otsego County. “We need to be pushing to create new jobs,� he said. Tom Armao, Bob Harlem’s co-chair and head of the Public Information working group, said, “In any economic system, scarcity wrecks it. We’ve had a scarcity of opportunity. People are taking their families and moving out of the area. We have to have a reason to stay. We need to build profitable companies we can sell to our children – or someone else – so we can retire here.� “This end of the county hasn’t had much opportunity for growth,� he added. “We need viable businesses for us to survive.� “Many of our problems will go away if we have more jobs,� said Jamie Reynolds, NBT Bank regional executive. “The more people we have working, the better we’ll be on all fronts.� Heathcare and education are on the docket for upcoming meetings. “It’s important for us to drive the bus, so to speak,� said Harlem. “We need mandate relief for the schools and health care reform.� The June 15 meeting, with Seward, Assemblyman Bill McGee, D-Nelson, and Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, will focus on workers’ compensation concerns. Attendees are encouraged to bring two people with them. “When we have members of government come and share their time with us, we need to come out en masse,� said Harlem. “Small numbers don’t impress them – large numbers do.� “The battle isn’t over,� he said. “It’s an ongoing conversation.�

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Worcester’s Renovated School Beautiful, But Let’s Look To Future

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t’s another one of those pesky unintended consequences, a whole passel of them, actually. Who didn’t support the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), which, noting New York State’s wide range of per-pupil costs, sued, seeking to establish a uniform baseline? In 2006, the Court of Appeals, our state’s equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, agreed with the CFE, ordering that equal funding be done. That affirmed the rich-district, poor-district system the state Education Department uses to allocate aid. One way the state directed aid to what it defined as poor districts – a faulty definition in say, lake communities like Cooperstown, where the summer homes of the wealthy from elsewhere skew the numbers for everyone else – was through building projects, which led to construction of educational Taj Mahals throughout Otsego County, from Edmeston Central School to Gilbertsville-Mount Upton to Morris to Laurens to Schenevus to Worcester, where Saturday, May 12, the ribbon was cut on a $32.6 million expansion/renovation. We equalized spending, but did we really improve education? Still, the letter of the court decision was met and the state Education

get crisis, Albany is cutting school aid at the same time it is imposing a 2-percent ceiling on tax hikes, which created the crisis surrounding Oneonta’s Center Street School and a pinch everywhere else. Governor Cuomo is right: Localities can’t absorb 7 percent school tax increases year after year when residents’ incomes are rising only 5 percent or 2 percent or not at all. Seven percent would double taxes in 10 years, while someone getting a 2 percent annual raise would see an increase of only 20 percent. (Cuomo is wrong to Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Saturday, May impose a tax cap without lifting state mandates. New 12, escorts Virginia Basso, who cut the ribbon that officially recognized the completion of York City is now exempt $32.6 million in renovations to Worcester Central from the onerous 1948 School. At left in Supt. of Schools Gary Kuch. Wicks Law, requiring multiple contracts on a single job; Department could check off Stamford. Upstate should be spared a box. Because while all this as well, although too late, This is not necessarily was going on, enrollment given the orgy of school to criticize. Many of our was going through a preconstruction just coming to school buildings were old, cipitous fall – 30 percent a end.) even substandard. For inoverall in the ONC BOCES • stance, Worcester Central’s schools, and in such individStill, the obvious is obvicafeteria was in the baseual districts as Cooperstown ous. Does Otsego County, ment, a code violation that Central. Oneonta did better, with 60,000 people, need required an annual variance but others did worse. 12 school districts? Does it – dangerous, too. So, at a time we probneed 12 districts to serve 30 • ably should have been percent fewer students? The But the incentives were looking at retrenchment, answer is a ringing “probwrong, locking in place we were pouring more and ably not.” an increasingly inefficient more money into school So how many districts do status quo. One of the districts serving fewer and we need? Would two sufexpensive renovations was fewer youngsters. In other fice? Greater Oneonta at the in Jefferson, one of the words, we were investing in south end and Glimmerglass smallest schools in the ONC yesterday’s school districts, Regional at the north, perBOCES region and a prime not tomorrow’s. haps based around Richfield candidate for merger with Now, with the state’s bud-

Springs Central, (which has an exceptionally fine plant)? Maintain the elementary schools in the population centers. Perhaps that’s extreme but, with distance learning and the BOCES, perhaps not. There was an exciting discussion about distancelearning initiatives at the CCS candidates’ debate, although as an enhancement to, not a substitute for, human contact – AP Sanskrit for all! Blue-skying it, it makes sense to put the money where we want the growth, or where the growth is going to happen naturally: Certainly, the New City of Oneonta that’s now under discussion, with two colleges, commerce parks, Southside as the regional retail magnet and three I-88 exits, is one logical educational hub. (That’s why closing Center Street School now doesn’t make sense – in a few years, the city district will need more space.) It’s true that we always have the resources to accomplish our priorities, but we have to determine those priorities. Granted, it’s a toxic subject, but the educational establishment is letting us down. If a map exists outlining the optimum school district boundaries of the future, nobody’s talking about it. Yet, it’s an essential con-

versation, otherwise we’re on an ever-more-expensive treadmill, and treadmills lead nowhere. • At the Worcester Central ribbon-cutting, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, pledged to fight for a funding formula “to better aid communities like Worcester,” to ensure state aid is distributed “in a much fairer way to rural, less wealthy communities.” That would be like saying, 60 years ago, that state aid should be applied to preserving the one-room schoolhouse. While we do look back nostalgically to those days, no one really wants to return to teaching the 3Rs – AP Sanskrit, fuggedaboutit – to the tune of a hickory stick. Our admirable senator, long a member of the Senate Education Committee, knows better. In fact, he’s the logical leader of the conversation for future-looking change in educational funding, the way he has been in recent months in rethinking economic development in Otsego County and reenergizing that conversation. Go for it! Again, there’s no intent to be churlish on Worcester Central’s accomplishment. It’s a delightful building, user friendly, much needed; district residents should be proud. But what’s the big picture?

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Schools Must Consider Future Jobs For Students To the Editor: The Chronicle Of Higher Education recently tabulated that, between 2007 and 2010, the number of Americans with masters’ degrees who received Food Stamps and other welfare benefits increased from 102,000 to more than 290,000. The number of Ph.D.s on some kind of public assistance jumped from about 10,000 to nearly 34,000. Similarly many younger college graduates are either living home and mowing their parents lawn or toiling away at fast-food restaurants. Unfortunately many of these have pursued college educational credentials that have no real world marketable values. The recent Cooperstown Central School’s newsletter slated that both technology and business courses are to be curtailed in light of severe financial difficulties.

This seems very shortsighted, as such curriculums can lead to immediate employment, especially if augmented by some additional community college attendance. The lock-step guidance mantra leading each and every single high school student to college enrollment has proven to be in many cases a waste of time and money for both students and parents. Another recent study has determined that, on average, about 10 percent of a district’s yearly budget is spent on athletic programs than benefit less than 3 percent of the students. A switch to intra-mural sports programs, as has been done in many Western states, could help alleviate many budgetary problems in Cooperstown and in other schools as well. BOB O’CON Cooperstown

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our readers might be interested to know that over 100 people attended “Meeting the Energy Challenge for Otsego County: Local Solutions, Local Control, Local Jobs,” a conference put on by Sustainable Otsego Saturday, May 5, in Cooperstown. A dozen speakers did a great job in six hours covering many aspects of conservation and renewable energy. They examined everything from the big picture to nuts and bolts, from economics and money to insulation, heating, and renewable installations. A lot of new information was brought together in one place and shared with our local community perhaps for the first time in a systematic way. Powerpoints and other materials presented at the conference are available at the Sustainable Otsego website: sustainableotsego.org One of the initiatives announced at the conference is a conservation program, “Tighten Up Cooperstown,” which is part of the sustainability initiative of the village. In an outreach effort to be coordinated by Sustainable Otsego Executive Director Antoinette Kuzminski and members of the Village’s environmental committee, in conjunction with NYSERDA, village residents will be contacted with information for financing retrofits and homes and small businesses. More details to be announced. The conference also highlighted the potential of local renewable resources, including biomass, solar, and wind. The potential of local biomass – utilizing wood processing, forest management, and agricultural biomass – is significant in our area. Local production of wood and grass pellets for heating is already underway in our area by Enviro Energy of Wells Bridge. We have plenty of sunshine to support photovoltaics and solar thermal installations and we have a number of local businesses who install them. The Mohawk Valley Biofuels Cooperative is developing biodiesel for local use.

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Bob Miller, Enviro Energy, Wells Bridge, adjusts a Haybuster that grinds all manner of weeds, a first step in processing waste into combustible pellets. Is that one piece of local sustainability?

Wind power is also available in our area. As with the other renewables, it turns out that scale is important. Moderately sized local projects strike the best balance between the production of energy we need and the protection of our other local assets. In the case of wind, properly scaled communityowned or municipalized projects seem to provide the best option for meeting this goal. Whether we like it or not, living sustainably is not going to be a choice; it is going to be something we will increasingly be forced to do as we deplete non-renewable resources. Whether that’s a messy or orderly transition depends on what policies we adopt now. Absent the easy availability of concentrated sources of power from fossil fuels, and from other problematic sources such as nuclear power, we will be thrown back increasingly on our own resources. One of the conclusions which presents itself is that sustainable practices will by and large be local practices. This means that our communities should have a central role to play in deciding public policy on environmental matters.

If that is the case, we will have to close the gap between the energy we need and the non-polluting energy that is actually available largely by conserving energy in running our homes and businesses and vehicles, and by developing renewables from the sun, wind, earth, and biomass in our own backyards. Sustainability, it should be added, is not about undermining property rights, but about protecting them. That’s also the best way to protect the environment and our resources. If corporations and governments can come in and do as they please, we will be the victims not the beneficiaries, and our resources will be lost, not protected. If you didn’t make the conference, you missed a great experience. My thanks again to the participants and to our supporters who made this possible, and to our co-sponsors: OCCA, Brewery Ommegang, and Otsego 2000. Adrian Kuzminski, Fly Creek, is Sustainable Otsego moderator.

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History

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

These included furloughs for selected inmates, establishing law libraries in prisons, community centers to ease the transition from prison to society, the abandonment of censoring inmates’ letters to lawyers and public officials, extended training for new prison employees, encouragement of prison tours by private individuals and community groups, evening vocational and academic courses, and the conversion of several prisons to minimum security facilities within the next three years. May 1972

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The Normal School – A free country never yet had too many schools, nor has human ingenuity ever yet devised a method of investment which returns so heavy an interest as the money devoted to the good cause of education. The establishment of this school in Oneonta is an event of supreme importance in the history of this community and of this locality. It means advantages not to be estimated, not merely to those who now are, but to those who should follow; not merely to those who will be within the circle of its immediate influence, but to those, unnumbered, who are destined indirectly to feel its impulse. May 1887

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Local News – Fishermen report that Otsego bass have been caught in Goodyear Lake, as also have pike. The presence of the former fish, which are among the most palatable that reach Oneonta, in the nearby lake, will be learned with satisfaction by many. If that lake should become well stocked it would make the campsites upon its shores even more valuable than at present. Two runaway boys from Schenectady were taken from a freight car in the D & H yards in this city on Tuesday evening. They were of Slavish parentage and said they were on their way to Binghamton to secure work in a cigar factory. Their parents in Schenectady were notified and money for their transportation forwarded. The boys were about 13 years of age. May 1912

80 Years Ago

Aaron Burman, Betts Hill farmer in Delaware County drove his herd of cows into Delhi on Monday. The change from the cool breezes of his hilltop farm to the torrid pavement of Main Street seemed to call for a cooling drink. Mr. Burman parked his bovines and stopped at a soda fountain. Not at all interested in such fodder, one of the bossies became attracted to an inviting array of dainty feminine underthings in the window of George D. Arbuckle’s store and without further ado, she went to investigate. The surprise of customers and clerks alike can be well imagined at the spectacle of a full grown cow tripping down the aisle of the store with mincing steps. Evidently, bossy felt insulted at such a frigid welcome for, after reaching the back of the store, she hoisted her nose in the air in a gesture of injured

30 Years Ago

May 2002 pride, trotted up the other aisle and out the open door to rejoin her sisters on the street. May 1932

60 Years Ago

If Hartwick College students had their way, a military man would occupy the White House next year in preference to a coonskin-capped crime buster. Yesterday’s mock college presidential election gave General Dwight D. Eisenhower an almost three to one victory over his Democratic opponent Estes Kefauver. Eisenhower and his running mate, California governor Earl Warren, received 154 votes as compared to 52 for Kefauver and vice-presidential aspirant W. Averell Harriman. Even political observers seemed amazed at the runaway lead compiled by Ike, a Kansas farm boy who grew up to become one of America’s most famous generals and later President of Columbia University. “I guess it shows that Ike’s the popular man,� said Hartwick College Dean Wallace R. Klinger, whose American Politics class conducted the student mock election. Over 90 percent of those who registered voted, Dr. Klinger said, a very high percentage, even for students. May 1952

40 Years Ago

Russell G. Oswald, Commissioner of Correctional Services for New York State, will be the guest speaker on Thursday, May 18, as part of Hartwick College’s Negley K. Teeters Symposium on Crime in America. Oswald is familiar to many for his role in quelling the riot at Attica State prison. Four days prior to the outbreak at Attica on September 10, Oswald announced a program of reforms.

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No one seems to know exactly what the centerpiece of the city’s $1.2 million Main Street actually is. The twelvefoot high wooden structure is located in the center of a circular seating area that overlooks the Broad Street parcel. “I have absolutely no idea what it is,� said Roger G. Hughes, a former Oneonta mayor. Vernon Roberts, who spends hours each day resting on a Main Street bench, said, “You got me. I have no idea. I never paid much attention to it.� Betsy Miller, owner of the Oneonta Paperback Exchange, directly across the street also “had no idea.� Kevin Bligh, owner of the nearby Tri-County Electronics said, “Nobody knows what it is.� The answer came from Assistant City Engineer Bruno Bruni who explained that the wood structure is a “play structure� for youngsters to climb upon. May 1982

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The Oneonta Town Planning Board on Monday approved the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s proposal to build a pump house to help irrigate its soccer fields situated along State Highways 205 and 7. However, the board added as a condition a requirement that, within the next year, the Hall also build a chain link fence at least six feet high along their property’s entire border separating the soccer fields from the Peaceful Flats residences. Peaceful Flats residents have complained of soccer players urinating on their property and coming to their houses for water, or to use telephones. Albert Colone, NSHOF executive director, said, “It seems to me that it’s up to the landlord of Peaceful Flats to provide the fence.� The original site plan, approved by the board for the NSHOF site, called for shrubs to be planted along the border as a “sight barrier.� Though admitting the shrubs were never intended as a security fence, planning board members still decided the construction of a fence was the responsibility of the Hall. May 1992

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Members of the Oneonta Stallionettes and EliteDance Academy Instructors Erin O’Brien and Shannah Kane teach dance steps to an excited group of local participants. The kick line, which stretched across Muller Plaza, was one of several “audience participation� dance routines that made up the Oneonta’s second Destination Weekend. These Oneonta Tigers may be small, but are no less ferocious! Maddox Imperada and Nakaye Facey show off their new faces, courtesy of BJ and Company’s Barb Field.

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Perna’s Career May Inspire Those Following In Her Footsteps PERNA/From A1 Management. “We grew that business from less than $1 billion to $4 billion worldwide,” she said. As sneaky graduates update Facebook from their iPhones, Perna will be describing the technology landscape she went into in 1974. “There is more data

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“For a girl in 1969, when I graduated high school, you were either going to be a teacher, a secretary or a nurse,” she said. “I wasn’t sure about being a teacher, but math seemed like a good discipline.” She soon realized that teaching wasn’t her passion. “I was energized when I started, but by the last year, I didn’t have that attachment,” she said. “I knew it was time to do something else.” Though women in technology were rare at the time, Perna was hired by IBM and moved to San Jose, Calif., and from there went on to lead a group building data-

bases in Toronto. Next, she was transferred to company headquarters in New York City as general manager. Her math degree wasn’t the only thing she took away from her SUNY Oneonta education. “I got a great liberal arts education,” she said. “The skills I learned in communication and writing served me well with the corporate world. I contrast that with students I hired who just focused on advanced degrees in computers and they didn’t have those communication skills.” Perna’s advice for the 2012 class is simple – nurture relationships with

friends, family and coworkers. “Help people,” she said. “Students these days are tied to community. I really applaud them and hope they’ll keep going with their community service.” It’ll be a lot of hard work, she cautioned, and there will be times you have to pick yourself up. But most of all, it’s about finding a career you love. “It really is about finding your passion,” Perna said. “People used to say that to me and my eyes would glaze over, but when I was working 70 hours a week or had machine time in the middle of the night, I was energized.”

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“There was so much emotion in this election,” said Lisa Zuend-Misner, who voted yes for the budget and the school buses. Even residents who hadn’t voted in the last few school board elections came out to cast their ballots in this highly contentious election. “I work for the school, I’m a parent, I live in the town – I haven’t voted in a couple of years, but this is a big one,” said another voter. Though the overwhelming number of votes won’t be officially counted until the early hours of the morning, Lishanksy provided the unofficial numbers: • The $$33,173,397 budget, which included a 1.81 percent tax increase, passed 1,924 votes to 696. • Proposition 2, which allowed for $177,641 to purchase two handicappedaccessible school buses, passed 1,640 to 975. • Susan Kurkowski won her seat with 1,213 votes, while incumbent Jamie Reynolds kept his seat with 1,455 against Jason Antrosio and Jeffrey Gardner. Paradoxically, given the nay vote on Center Street, Kurkowski ran to keep Center Street open. It was a record turnout for a school election, according to Superintendent Mike Shea, who called it “a great opportunity for democracy.” “I don’t think we had this many people turn out for a presidential election,” added Lishansky.

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to Prattsville, he kept hearing that word, one that is surfacing more and more frequently in Otsego County – broadband. Rural communities want it. When Mr. Gibson went to Washington after defeating

incumbent Democrat Scott Murphy, he learned that his majority in the U.S. House of Representatives was about to eliminate low-interest loans for, yes, extending broad-band Internet service to rural communities.

“When I learned that was the intent,” he said in an interview during a two-day visit to Cooperstown Thursday-Friday, May 10-11, “I told the leadership, ‘This isn’t going to work’,” and he would go to the floor

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Sheldon “Terby” TerBush Jr., 82; Member Of First Oneonta High School Ski Team ONEONTA – Sheldon “Terby” TerBush Jr., 82, a member of the first Oneonta High School ski team, passed away on May 9, 2012. Terby was born on March 6, 1930, in Oneonta, son of Sheldon TerBush Sr. and Dorothy Doster TerBush. He graduated from Oneonta Senior High School in

1948, where he played football, basketball, tennis and track, and skied. On June 3, 1951, he married Elizabeth ”Betty” Michaels in Cooperstown. They were married for 60 years and raised three children. He was the co-owner and operator of the Oneonta Dairy Queen

with his daughter, Ellen, and also worked with his son at Craig TerBush Builders. He was a volunteer member of The National Ski Patrol for 38 years, serving at Scotch Valley and Plattekill. He also enjoyed gardening, fishing, hunting and golf outings, and was a member of Laurens Presbyterian Church.

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new LIStInG - MLS#84245 - Lrg restored farmhouse on over 112 beautiful & level acres in the Town of Springfield & only 10 minutes from Cooperstown. This home features 4 lrg bedrms, 1 full & 2 half baths, 1st flr master bedrm, wide pine wood flrs, (some cut nail) lrg living rm, formal dining rm, & oversized kitchen w/breakfast nook. Also a lrg accessory apartment w/separate entrance, 3 bedrms, 1 full bath, kitchen, dining, and living rms w/french doors leading to private deck. 2 lrg barns, workshop, chicken coop & 2 ponds. Home can be sold w/less property for lower price. $399,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

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MLS#83868 - AMAZINGLY AFFORDABLE LAKEFRONT PROPERTY ON OTSEGO LAKE boasting THE most fantastic lake views. 4 bedrm, 1 bathrm cottage features upgraded & reinforced poured concrete foundation, lots of basement storage, NEWer roof (2007), screened in porch overlooking the lake. Offered at an incredible price $269,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

(7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly-kept 3-bedroom home. The many extras include formal dining room, hardwood flooring, Modern kitchen. Garage, rocking-chair front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Will capture your fancy! Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000

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HOME SWEET HOME

Enjoy the sweet life in this graciously restored farmhouse on 44+Acres. This comfortable home offers 4 bedrooms, and 2 baths, is professionally landscaped, and overlooks majestic views of the countryside. Currently a working farm, the 200x60 ft barn and additional out buildings offer many possibilities for use. An artist’s studio, caretaker’s cottage among many. Also a short drive to Cooperstown’s amenities. Offered at $550,000.00. Mls #83981

Ranch Near Cooperstown

charming near cooperstown

(7590) Just 4 miles from Cooperstown on 3+ acres. Features 2-3 bedrooms, Living room with gas fireplace, 3 season sun room, new composition deck, attached 1 1/2 car garage. Circular drive, central air, new generator. A well built home. Cooperstown Schools. $198,500.

(7550) Live comfortably in this well-maintained 4BR/3BA Ranch-type featuring country scenery on 1.80 acres. Offering cathedral beamed ceilings, great room, finished basement. Spacious floorplan, main-level master bedroom w/jacuzzi. 1 Acre Eat-in Kitchen w/oak cabinets, laundry room. Energy efficient, Two-car garage, 12x24 workshop, decks. Tiered deck. Be sure (6989) Pierstown area just minutes from Cooperstown. Nice to see this delightful home just 2 1/2 miles from Cooperstown! building lot good area. Possible owner finance. Good access on main road. Country views. Cooperstown Schools. Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Exclusive. $225,000 Hubbell’s Exclusive $49,000

cooperstown viLLage Living

(7514) A real treasure! You will want to see this 3BR/2+BA centrally located home. Among its features are newer kitchen with Corian counter top, Pergo flooring and newer furnace. Cozy fireplace. Spacious living room, family room, walk-up attic. Formal dining room. Garage, newer roof, deck, central air. Mature plants. Fully remodeled. Come home to an air of comfort and welcome. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $279,000

Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Rob Lee 434-5177; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881

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